Am Lit: 2132 Final Review

Question 1

When did Langston Hughes become a member of the American Communist party?

Accepted Answer

During the Great Depression

Question 2

Which literary movement does the poem "In a Station of the Metro" by Ezra Pound exemplify?

Accepted Answer

Imagism

Question 3

What volume of poetry, published by Robert Lowell, started Confessional Poetry?

Accepted Answer

Life Studies

Question 4

What does the symbolism of Spring usually mean in poetry?

Accepted Answer

Youth and rebirth

Question 5

Which two authors started as newspaper journalists?

Accepted Answer

Mark Twain and Walt Whitman

Question 6

Which of the following are techniques used in free-verse?

Accepted Answer

all of the above

Question 7

In which of William's poems does he render a moment by focusing on a passing firetruck?

Accepted Answer

"The Great Figure"

Question 8

Which of the following is NOT an aspect of Robert Frost's writing style?

Accepted Answer

Symbolic vocabulary of flowers and colors

Question 9

Which literary movement served as a cultural epicenter for black artists?

Accepted Answer

Harlem Renaissance

Question 10

In which of Whitman's poems do we see the theme of a declining western star?

Accepted Answer

"When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd"

Question 11

Who was the first black author to win the Pulitzer Prize in 1950?

Accepted Answer

Gwendolyn Brooks

Question 12

Why did Walt Whitman choose to depict himself casually on the inside cover of "Leaves of Grass"

Accepted Answer

He wanted to align himself with working people.

Question 13

What is an elegy?

Accepted Answer

a poem of serious reflection, usually a lament for the dead

Question 14

What is anaphora?

Accepted Answer

a word repeated at the beginning of 2 or more lines

Question 15

Which section from "The Wasteland" discusses desire creating suffering?

Accepted Answer

The Fire Sermon

Question 16

What impact did Sigmund Freud have on literature in the interwar era?

Accepted Answer

the theme of an individual trapped in a repressive culture

Question 17

How does the poem "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" begin?

Accepted Answer

with a quote from Dante's Inferno

Question 18

Which of the following authors lived in Eatonville, Florida until they were 13?

Accepted Answer

Zora Neale Hurston

Question 19

Why was T.S. Eliot's family angry about his marriage?

Accepted Answer

They expected him to return to America

Question 20

Why did William Carlos Williams use enjambment in "The Red Wheel Barrow"

Accepted Answer

Breaks up language, forcing us to slow down reading

Question 21

According to Thomas Foster, which of these does a quest NOT consist of?

Accepted Answer

a homecoming

Question 22

Which of the following is NOT one of Ezra Pound's rules for good writing?

Accepted Answer

Write without structure or rhyme, "long lines"

Question 23

Julia Alvarez was born in

Accepted Answer

New York

Question 24

What is a dialect?

Accepted Answer

a form of a language that is specific to a specific region

Question 25

What profession did William Carlos Williams have for nearly 40 years?

Accepted Answer

Doctor

Question 26

In which poem does Langston Hughes discuss "bathing in the Euphrates"?

Accepted Answer

"The Negro Speaks of Rivers"

Question 27

Which poem by Amy Lowell speaks of "rainbow feathers"?

Accepted Answer

"The Captured Goddess"

Question 28

How many sections in "The Wasteland" by T.S. Eliot broken into?

Accepted Answer

5

Question 29

What is the idea that "literature...grows out of other literature" called?

Accepted Answer

Intertextuality

Question 30

Amy Lowell

Accepted Answer

is from an affluent family from Boston

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Am Lit: 2132 Final Review

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